"I'll admit I may have seen better days,
but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail,
like a salted
peanut"(Margo Channing)

Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Lick My Fat

I rubbed a bit of chicken fat ( which was impregnated with garlic) on my sore swollen knee this evening. We had had the chicken for supper.....it was very nice. Anyhow, It's not an old Welsh recipe against such ailments, but it did make Winnie lick the hell out of the afflicted part which was as soothing if not more as a bag of frozen peas.

I had a bad knee last autumn and found Pernaton gel to be a great benefit - not cheap but very effective. Though I'm not sure Winnie would enjoy the taste of it quite so much as the chicken fat. Hope your knee improves soon. I've had a dreadful hip problem for the best part of 10 years and I can cope with that, but the pain from a dodgy knee really got me down. It was so bad I was even contemplating visiting a GP, and I NEVER go near a doctor if I can help it.

Dear John, get it attended to. If your knee needs real medical care (like torn meniscus or other things we really old farts have dealt with), do it. It will ad years and years to living live as a middle aged fart, not an old fart.

Please rest your knee as much as possible. Put it up when sitting down - on another chair, stool or something. No kneeling down and very gentle exercise movements. And when the discomfort subsides, remember this episode so that you never kneel without cushioned support and buy yourself two thick foam rubber oblongs or squares.

I have vague memories of my husband offering to lick or kiss various parts of me when I complained about an ache or something ... Whatever works John, whatever works.I just take a lot of Advil/aspirin / whatever and complain a lot. Don't be a silent sufferer, it only makes you more miserable.I know what I am talking about <3

Some work on trigger points around the knee might help. We have a marvelous book on the topic. http://www.triggerpointbook.com/ In very general, the most likely places to affect a knee are in the muscles directly around the knee (and don't ignore the very behind of the knee even if the pain is on the front) and up the inside of the thighs, going up from the knee to the groin. There are three points there that will make you yelp when you find the right spots and you'll wonder why you never noticed them before! Get your thumbs or a massage tool in there and rub each sore spot in a circle ten times, and do that as often as you notice it hurting across the day. Even if an injury is not begun in the muscle, once you have pain and such in an area, the muscles will go into spasm around that area, causing more pain and sometimes further injury. We've fixed all sorts of odd pains with this book, including a knee of mine that I'd been strapping up for months. You can extend it into calves and thighs too. Give it a go!

Is that a photo of Winnie ? Bless her, she's trying to help.Best to get the knee seen to John, it will just keep giving you problems if you don't. Ibuprofen eases the pain.Who will do the dog walks if you're incapacitated?

Sounds like it has been giving you grief for some time now, so getting the GP to refer you should perhaps be on your to-do list.However, I'm sure you know that if you end up needing surgery you'll have to make some changes to all the rushing about you do - it's no fun.

There are ties when you DO have to (metaphorically) jump up and down until you get some help - and don't just put up with it! Getting old is a given, getting creaky is not! It needs someone with more skill than Winnie to manipulate it - although you won't get anyone more loving, will you!!

Chronic pain wears a person down. I've had chronic dental pain for most of the past six months - a short time in the scheme of things - and there are days I feel completely stressed by it. Then I think about those with arthritis, back pain, nerve pain, etc. - including our own daughter - and I don't know how people cope. Because they have to, I guess. But that doesn't make it hurt any less. I hope something can be done for your knee.